squat lekythos
- Museum number
- 1866,0415.64
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured squat lekythos.
Eros and a Nymph. In the centre is a diminutive archaic statuette of a draped woman en face, with legs close together, arms from elbows extended, resting on a small plinth; the chiton has been coloured pink, the mantle, wound tightly round the figure, has been vermilion; the face is mostly worn away. Beside this, on right, Eros stands in three-quarter face to left, with right hand on his hip, holding out in right a beaded fillet; he wears a fillet, and looks towards a Nymph who is seated on the left, playing on a tympanon which she holds upright in her left hand; she wears a long chiton, a mantle, and a saccos. The head of Eros is on a level with the head of the seated woman; that of the statuette is lower.
The drapery and the statuette have been coloured pink, the tympanon vermilion, the wings, fillet, beads, and jewellery gilt. There is a band of egg pattern on the shoulder, with gilt centres; below the handle, a palmette with tendrils.
- Production date
- 400BC-380BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.16 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc44)
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1866,0415.64
